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...bystanders gathered outside of Widener attempted to drown out the chants of the demonstrators and then gradually dispersed Many of the onlookers disputed the Sparicists view of world events. "Their support of the Soviet Union and the government of Poland is sufficient comment on their concern for civil rights." Yitzhak Klein, a graduate student in Government, said yesterday...
...sure if the word was calculatedly chosen or just grabbed out of a hat." Neither was anybody else. But Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin quickly remarked that Israel was not interested in security guarantees, adding, "There is no guarantee that can guarantee a guarantee." Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir explained at some length why the idea was unacceptable. Said he: "This is for us a great national and ethical principle. Only Jews shall defend the Jewish state. The day we need foreign troops to defend us will be a day of mourning and tragedy for our people...
...Israel's Supreme Court. On his right was a scholarly fellow Justice who, with his impassioned manner and shock of black hair, cut the panel's most arresting figure; on his left, a trim, mustachioed, usually silent retired major general. The three members of the investigative commission-Yitzhak Kahan, 69, Aharon Barak, 46, and Yona Efrat, 56-are known respectively for integrity, independence and intrepidity. They are admired collectively for their dispassionate rectitude. No one had quarreled with their initial selection; few quibbled about their final decision...
...impervious to reputation. As Attorney General, in 1977 he sent to prison the government's nominee for chairman of the Bank of Israel and in 1977 forced the Minister of Finance to withdraw a plan to give amnesty to tax evaders. In April 1977 he prosecuted Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's wife Leah for holding U.S. bank accounts, forcing Rabin's departure from office. And as Begin's legal adviser, Barak was, wrote Jimmy Carter in his memoirs, "a real hero in the Camp David discussions...
...Party will then have to decide whether to enter the campaign under the leadership of Shimon Peres, who has lost to Begin twice, or choose a new leader. Navon has said he would accept the job only if he was uncontested, meaning that both Peres and former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin would have to step aside. Given the party's divisions, that is not considered very likely...